Day One
1. Do
you write a single genre or do your fingers flow over the keys creating tales
in many forms?
I started out writing middle grade, you
know, for kids 9 – 12, but lately, I’ve taken to writing YA.
2 . Does your reading
choices reflect your writing choices?
No, not really. I do read a lot of kid books and YA, but every so
often, I have this great need to read an adult book. Sometimes, though, they’re
too gory for me.
3. Are
there genres you wouldn’t attempt?
Oh, yes. Many. Don’t even ask.
4. Heroes,
Heroines, Villains. Which are your favorite to write?
All, really. Depends how deep I go.
5. Heroes.
How do you find them? Do pictures, real life or plain imagination create the
man you want every reader to love? Do they come before the plot or after you
have the idea for the story?
Well … I guess there’s a lot of me living
in those heroes. I know that sounds kind of uppity because I’m not that brave
or great, but my heroes have a personal quality about them.
6. Villains
or villainesses or an antagonist, since they don’t always have to be the bad
guy or girl. They can be a person opposed to the hero’s or heroine’s obtaining
their goal. How do you choose one? How do you make them human?
I love developing villains because I get
to go inside their creepy little minds, whether they be human, unicorn, and
show how they got to be so terrible. Then, they either change or meet their
fate. (The fate’s not usually nice.)
7. What
is your latest release? Who is the hero, heroine and or the villain?
I have a really cool book coming out in
September. It’s about a young war bride who meets a soldier in Belgium during
WWI. She travels to Canada after the war to marry her true love and to acquire
a homestead. Then the dirty thirties hit. So my villain is actually mother
nature herself.
8. How
can people find you?
Here are my links:
Day Two - Give the Blurbs for 3 of your books.
The Legacy
(Shadow of the Unicorn, book 1)
Azaria, a unicorn colt, is intrigued when the young,
clairvoyant dinosaur, Darius, foresees a terrifying change to their world. When
a giant fireball smashes into the earth, the unicorns struggle to survive the
hurricanes and starvation that follow. But nothing compares to the danger when
the creatures-that-walk-on-two-legs settle in the valley, and their leader
discovers the healing power in the unicorns’ horns. Greedy and ruthless,
Ishmael will stop at nothing in his pursuit of wealth – even the complete
extinction of the herd. Azaria must find a way to outsmart Ishmael before it’s
too late.
The Deception (Shadow of the Unicorn, book 2)
Sixty years after the unicorns’ narrow escape from
extinction, Azaria's Legacy has gone wrong. The new generation barely exists,
hidden in the depths of the forest. Their cruel and ruthless leader, Icarus,
threatens them daily with Jaresh, an invisible being capable of taking away
their powers. Angry, the young colt Ulysees, and his friend Téo rebel,
following an old, abandoned trail where they’re discovered by humans. Now the
entire herd must flee. But Ulysees learns there’s a far greater danger than humans
when he meets a giant creature who warns him of impending doom...
A Town Bewitched
It’s tough
for Kira, growing up in the small town of Hope as a child prodigy in classical
violin, especially when her dad just died. And to make matters worse, Kate
McDonough, the red-haired fiddler appears out of nowhere and bewitches the town
with her mysterious Celtic music. Even Uncle Jack succumbs to her charms,
forgetting his promise to look after Kira’s family. But when someone begins
vandalizing the town leaving dead and gutted birds as a calling card, Kira
knows without a doubt who’s behind it.
